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gabriel78
May 6th, 2016, 10:21 PM
I have an Asus Ultrabook UX32A.
I have a small SDD with 24 GB and a big HDD with 500 GB.
Windows 8 was pre-installed.
I deleted ALL Partitions on both discs (because I though I do not need any of them anymore) and installed Ubuntu 16.04.
I created a small partition at the beginning of the SSD and marked it in the installation process as efi.
On the remaining partition of the SSD, I installed Ubuntu 16.04.
After the installation, I was unable to boot into the new installed Ubuntu 16.04.
I tried boot-repair, but without any luck.

Here is a Boot-Summary of boot-repair (I installed it in the live system. The drive of the livesystem is /dev/sdc/)
http://paste2.org/b9AmUKjv

Please any help!

ubfan1
May 6th, 2016, 11:25 PM
But you apparently installed in legacy mode, without a grub-bios partition on a GPT disk, so no boot. Reinstall in UEFI mode.

oldfred
May 7th, 2016, 01:13 PM
In UEFI mode grub only installs to the ESP on sda. So have an ESP on your hard drive.
But use gpt partitioning on both drives and put just / (root) on SSD. Then use HDD for either /home or large data partition like /mnt/data and link all typical /home folders into /home on SSD.

Splitting home directory discussion and details:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1811198
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1901437
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1734233&highlight=%2Fdata

oldfred
May 9th, 2016, 02:38 AM
After you create the ESP on sda, then grub will install correctly in UEFI mode.
But you need to boot Boot-Repair in UEFI mode.